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Re: [Ltru] Canonical variants



Mark Davis scripsit:

> However, what you and others seem to be implicitly assuming is the
> ordering "most significant subtag first". So just to get out of this
> issue, we could use that as a guiding principle. That is, we give
> the advice to users (in the "tag wisely section") for variant subtag
> ordering as follows:
> 
> - put prefix variant subtags before their suffixes (that is, if V1
>   occurs in a Prefix of V2, V1 should go first)
> - otherwise, put "more significant" variant subtags before others
> - otherwise -- or in case there is any doubt as to relative significance --
>   put variant subtags in alphabetical order.

I'm good with that, since it's advisory and decoupled from
canonicalization.

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